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Deploy and configure infrastructure

Implement workloads and security

Architect Cloud Technology Solutions

Create and deploy apps

Implement authentication and secure data

Develop for the Cloud

Determine workload requirements

Design for identity and security

Design a Data Platform Solution

Design a Business Continuity Strategy

Design for deployment, migration, and integration

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AZ-300T01-A: Deploying and Configuring Infrastructure

Module 1: Managing Azure Subscriptions and Resources

In this module you will explore Azure monitoring capabilities using Azure alerts, Azure activity logs, and Log Analytics. You will learn to query, analyze, and interpret the data viewed in Log Analytics.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Managing Azure Subscriptions and Resources

Module 2: Implementing and Managing Storage

In this module you will learn about Azure storage accounts, data replication, how to use Azure Storage Explorer, and monitor storage.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Implementing and Managing Storage

Module 3: Deploying and Managing Virtual Machines (VMs)

In this module you will learn how to do the following:

Create Virtual Machines (VM)s within the Azure Portal

Create Virtual Machines (VM)s using Azure PowerShell

Create Virtual Machines (VM)s using ARM templates

Deploy Linux Virtual Machines (VM)s

Monitor Virtual Machines (VM)s

Additionally, you will learn how to protect data using backups at regular intervals, whether by snapshot, Azure Backup, or Azure Site Recovery.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Deploying and Managing VMs

Module 4: Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

In this module you will create and implement virtual networks using the Azure Portal as well as Azure PowerShell and CLI. You will receive and overview on how to assign IP addresses to Azure resources to communicate with other Azure resources, your on-premises network, and the Internet.

Lessons

Network routing using routing tables and algorithms

Inter-site connectivity using VNet-to-VNet connections and VPNs

Virtual network peering for regional and global considerations

Gateway transit

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

Module 5: Managing Identities

This module covers Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) for IT Admins and Developers with a focus on the Azure AD multi-tenant cloud-based directory and identity management service.

Lessons

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

built-in roles

Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR)

authentication methods for password reset

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Managing Identities using Azure Active Directory

AZ-300T02-A: Implementing Workloads and Security

Module 1: Evaluating and Performing Server Migration to Azure

This module covers migrating workloads to a new environment, whether it be another datacenter, or to a public cloud, and setting clear goals for the migration. Goals include both technology-focused and business-focused goals for migrations and the benefits to an organisation’s business. Activities include components of the Azure migration process: creating a project, creating a collector, assessing readiness and estimating costs. Additionally, you will receive and overview of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) that includes and end-to-end scenarios.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Evaluating and Performing Server Migration to Azure

Module 2: Implementing and Managing Application Services

This module includes the following topics:

Deploying Web Apps

Managing Web Apps

App Service Security

Serverless Computing Concepts

Managing Event Grid

Managing Service Bus

Managing Logic App

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Implementing and Managing Application Services

Module 3: Implementing Advanced Virtual Networking

This module includes the following topics:

Azure Load Balancer

Azure Application Gateway

Site-to-Site VPN Connections

As well as an overview of ExpressRoute, which allows companies to extend on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a dedicated private connection facilitated by a connectivity provider.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Implementing Advanced Virtual Networking

Module 4: Securing Identities

This module includes the following topics with an emphasis on identity and roles:

Azure AD Identity Protection

Azure Domains and Tenants

Azure Users and Groups

Azure Roles

As well as an overview of Azure AD integration options that focuses on Azure AD Connect to integrate on-premises directories with Azure Active Directory.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Securing Identities using Azure AD

AZ-300T03-A: Understanding Cloud Architect Technology Solutions

Module 1: Selecting Compute and Storage Solutions

This module includes the following topics:

Azure Architecture Center

Cloud design patterns

Competing consumers pattern

Cache-aside pattern

As well as sharding patterns to divide a data store into horizontal partitions or shards. Each shard has the same schema but holds its own distinct subset of the data.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Design and Connectivity Patterns

Module 2: Hybrid Networking

This module includes the following topics:

Site-to-site connectivity

Point-to-site connectivity

Combining site-to-site and point-to-site connectivity

Virtual network–to–virtual network connectivity

As well as connecting across cloud providers for failover, backup, or even migration between providers such as AWS.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Hybrid Networking

Module 3: Measuring Throughput and Structure of Data Access

This module includes the following topics:

DTUs – Azure SQL Database

RUs – Azure Cosmos DB

Structured and unstructured data

Using structured data stores

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Address Durability of Data and Caching

Measure Throughput and Structure of Data Access

AZ-300T04-A: Creating and Deploying Apps

Module 1: Creating Web Applications using PaaS

This module provides an overview of Azure App Service Web Apps for hosting web applications, REST APIs, and a mobile back end. Topics include the following:

Using shell commands to create an App Service Web App

Creating Background Tasks

Using Swagger to document an API

As well as an explanation of how Logic Apps help to build solutions that integrate apps, data, systems, and services across enterprises or organisations by automating tasks and business processes as workflows.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Use shell commands to create an App Service Web App

Create Background Tasks

Use Swagger to document an API

Module 2: Creating Apps and Services Running on Service Fabric

This module provides an overview of Azure Service Fabric as a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy and manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers. This module also addresses the challenges in developing and managing cloud native applications. Additional topics include:

Creating a reliable service

Creating a Reliable Actors app

Working with Reliable collections

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Create a reliable service

Create a Reliable Actors app

Hands-on with Reliable collections

Module 3: Using Azure Kubernetes Service This module focuses on the Azure

Kubernetes Service (AKS) for deploying and managing a Kubernetes cluster in Azure. Topics include how to reduce operational overhead of managing Kubernetes by offloading much of that responsibility to Azure, such as health monitoring and maintenance. Additional topics include:

As well as, implementing code to address application events by using webhooks. Implementing a webhook gives an external resource a URL for an application. The external resource then issues an HTTP request to that URL whenever a change is made that requires the application to take an action.

Module 2: Configuring a Message-Based Integration Architecture

Lessons

Configure an app or service to send emails

Configure an event publish and subscribe model

Configure the Azure Relay service

Configure apps and services with Microsoft Graph

After completing this module, students will be able to:

How to configure a message-based integration architecture

Module 3: Developing for Asynchronous Processing

Lessons

Implement parallelism, multithreading, and processing

Implement Azure Functions and Azure Logic Apps

Implement interfaces for storage or data access

Implement appropriate asynchronous computing models

Implement autoscaling rules and patterns

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand how to Develop for Asynchronous Processing

Module 4: Developing for Autoscaling

Lessons

Implementing autoscaling rules and patterns

Implementing code that addresses singleton application instances

Implementing code that addresses a transient state

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Begin creating apps for Autoscaling

Module 5: Developing Azure Cognitive Services Solutions

Lessons

Developing Solutions using Computer Vision

Developing solutions using Bing Web Search

Developing solutions using Custom Speech Service

Developing solutions using QnA Maker

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand Azure Cognitive Services Solutions

AZ-301T01-A: Designing for Indentity and Security

Module 1: Managing Security & Identity for Azure Solutions

This module discusses both security and identity within the context of Azure. For security, this module reviews the various options for monitoring security, the options available for securing data and the options for securing application secrets. For identity, this module focuses specifically on Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and the various features available such as Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Managed Service Identity, Azure AD Connect, ADFS and Azure AD B2B/B2C.

Determine when to use advanced features of Azure AD such as Managed Service Identity, MFA and Privileged Identity Management

Secure application secrets using Key Vault.

Secure application data using SQL Database and Azure Storage features

Module 2: Integrating SaaS Services Available on the Azure Platform

This module introduces multiple SaaS services available in Azure that are available for integration into existing Azure solutions. These services include Cognitive Services, Bot Service, Machine Learning and Media Services.

Lab: Deploying Service Instances as Components of Overall Azure Solutions

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Detail the various APIs available in Cognitive Services

Identify when to use the Face API, Speech API or Language Understanding (LUIS) service

AZ-301T02-A: Designing a Data Platform Solution

Module 1: Backing Azure Solutions with Azure Storage

This module describes how many Azure services use the Azure Storage service as a backing store for other application solution in Azure. The module dives into critical considerations when using Azure Storage as a supplemental service for an all-up Azure solution.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Determine the ideal pricing option for Azure Storage based on a solution’s requirements.

Identify performance thresholds for the Azure Storage service.

Determine the type of Storage blobs to use for specific solution components.

Use the Azure Files service for SMB operations.

Identify solutions that could benefit from the use of StorSimple physical or virtual devices.

Compare and contrast monitoring services for applications, the Azure platform and networking

Identify data streaming options for large-scale data ingest

Identify longer-term data storage options

Module 3: Monitoring & Automating Azure Solutions

This module covers the monitoring and automation solutions available after an Azure solution has been architected, designed and possibly deployed. The module reviews services that are used to monitor individual applications, the Azure platform and networked components. This module also covers automation and backup options to enable business-continuity scenarios for solutions hosted in Azure.

Lab: Deploying Configuration Management Solutions to Azure

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Compare and contrast monitoring services for applications, the Azure platform and networking

Design an alert scheme for a solution hosted in Azure

Select the appropriate backup option for infrastructure and data hosted in Azure. Automate the deployment of future resources for backup recovery or scaling purposes

AZ-301T03-A: Designing for Deployment, Migration and Integration

Module 1: Deploying Resources with Azure Resource Manager

This module establishes a basic understanding of Azure Resource Manager and the core concepts of deployments, resources, templates, resource groups and tags. The module will dive deeply into the automated deployment of resources using ARM templates.

Select between hosting application code or containers in an App Service instance

Describe the differences between API, Mobile and Web Apps

Integrate an API or Logic App with the API Management service

Design an App Service Plan or multi-region deployment for high performance and scale

AZ-301T04-A: Designing an Infrastructure Strategy

Module 1: Application Architecture Patterns in Azure

This module introduces, and reviews common Azure patterns and architectures as prescribed by the Microsoft Patterns & Practices team. Each pattern is grouped into performance, resiliency and scalability categories and described in the context of similar patterns within the category.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Locate and reference the Cloud Design Patterns documentation

Locate and reference the Azure Architecture Center

Describe various patterns pulled from the Cloud Design Patterns

Module 2: Building Azure IaaS-Based Server Applications (ADSK)

This module identifies workloads that are ideally deployed using Infrastructure-as-a-Service services in Azure. The module focuses on the VM Scale Sets and Virtual Machine services in Azure and how to best deploy workloads to these services using best practices and features such as Availability Sets.

Lab: Building Azure IaaS-Based Server Applications.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Design an availability set for one or more virtual machines

Describe the differences between fault and update domains

Author a VM Scale Set ARM template

Join a virtualised machine to a domain either in Azure or on a hybrid network

Module 3: Networking Azure Application Components

This module describes the various networking and connectivity options available for solutions deployed on Azure. The module explores connectivity options ranging from ad-hoc connections to long-term hybrid connectivity scenarios. The module also discusses some of the performance and security concerns related to balancing workloads across multiple compute instances, connecting on-premise infrastructure to the cloud and creating gateways for on-premise data.

This module describes and compares the integration and messaging services available for solutions hosted on the Azure platform. Messaging services described include Azure Storage Queues, Service Bus Queues, Service Bus Relay, IoT Hubs, Event Hubs and Notification Hubs. Integration services include Azure Functions and Logic Apps.

Lab: Integrating Azure Solution Components using Messaging Services

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Compare Storage Queues to Service Bus Queues

Identify when to use Azure Functions or Logic Apps for integration components in a solution

Describe the differences between IoT Hubs, Event Hubs and Time Series Insights

Microsoft Exams:

AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies

AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design

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